HC Deb 02 March 1916 vol 80 cc1231-4
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Considered in Committee.
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[Mr. WHITLEY in the Chair.]
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CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1916–17.—[VOTE ON ACCOUNT.]
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Motion made, and Question proposed, "That a sum not exceeding £36,634,000 be granted to His Majesty, on account, for or towards defraying the charges for the following Civil Services and Revenue Departments for the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1917, namely:—
| Class I. |
|
£ |
| Royal Palaces |
23,000 |
| Osborne |
7,000 |
| Royal Parks and Pleasure Gardens |
45,000 |
| Houses of Parliament Buildings |
25,000 |
| Miscellaneous Legal Buildings, Great Britain |
25,000 |
| Art and Science Buildings, Great Britain |
27,000 |
| Diplomatic and Consular Buildings |
12,000 |
| Revenue Buildings |
230,000 |
| Insurance and Labour Exchange Buildings, Great Britain |
56,000 |
| Public Buildings, Great Britain |
483,000 |
| Surveys of the United Kingdom |
55,000 |
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| Harbours under the Board of Trade |
5,000 |
| Peterhead Harbour |
8,000 |
| Rates on Government Property |
420,000 |
| Public Works and Buildings, Ireland |
90,000 |
| Railways, Ireland |
7,000 |
| Class II. |
| United Kingdom and England:— |
|
| House of Lords Offices |
20,000 |
| House of Commons |
85,000 |
| Treasury and Subordinate Departments |
47,000 |
| Home Office |
100,000 |
| Foreign Office |
30,000 |
| Colonial Office |
23,000 |
| Privy Council Office |
5,000 |
| Board of Trade |
180,000 |
| Mercantile Marine Services |
75,000 |
| Bankruptcy Department of the Board of Trade |
4 |
| Board of Agriculture and Fisheries |
200,000 |
| Charity Commission |
13,000 |
| Government Chemist |
20,000 |
| Civil Service Commission |
20,000 |
| Exchequer and Audit Department |
26,000 |
| Friendly Societies Registry |
10,000 |
| Local Government Board |
190,000 |
| Board of Control |
40,000 |
| Mint, including Coinage |
15 |
| National Debt Office |
6,000 |
| Public Record Office |
10,000 |
| Public Works Loan Commission |
4,000 |
| Registrar-General's Office |
21,000 |
| Stationery and Printing |
750,000 |
| Woods, Forests, etc., Office of |
10,000 |
| Works and Public Buildings, Office of |
67,000 |
| Secret Service |
180,000 |
| Scotland:— |
|
| Secretary for Scotland, Office of |
10,000 |
| Board of Agriculture |
25,000 |
| Fishery Board |
8,000 |
| General Board of Control |
10,000 |
| Registrar-General's Office |
3,000 |
| Local Government Board |
12,000 |
| Ireland:— |
|
| Lord Lieutenant's Household |
2,000 |
| Chief Secretary's Offices and Subordinate Departments |
11,000 |
| Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction |
75,000 |
| Charitable Donations and Bequests Office |
1,000 |
| Congested Districts Board |
64,000 |
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£ |
| Local Government Board |
50,000 |
| Public Record Office |
3,000 |
| Public Works Office |
18,000 |
| Registrar-General's Office |
5,000 |
| Valuation and Boundary Survey |
12,000 |
| Class III. |
| United Kingdom and England:— |
|
| Law Charges |
50,000 |
| Miscellaneous Legal Expenses |
26,000 |
| Supreme Court of Judicature, etc. |
150,000 |
| Land Registry |
15,000 |
| Public Trustee |
5 |
| County Courts |
45,000 |
| Police, England and Wales |
50,000 |
| Prisons, England and the Colonies |
400,000 |
| Reformatory and Industrial Schools, Great Britain |
170,000 |
| Criminal Lunatic Asylums, England |
24,000 |
| Scotland:— |
|
| Law Charges and Courts of Law |
30,000 |
| Scottish Land Court |
3,000 |
| Register House, Edinburgh |
17,000 |
| Prisons |
50,000 |
| Ireland:— |
|
| Law Charges and Criminal Prosecutions |
30,000 |
| Supreme Court of Judicature, and other Legal Departments |
45,000 |
| Land Commission |
320,000 |
| County Court Officers, etc. |
35,000 |
| Dublin Metropolitan Police |
55,000 |
| Royal Irish Constabulary |
650,000 |
| Prisons |
45,000 |
| Reformatory and Industrial Schools |
60,000 |
| Dundrum Criminal Lunatic Asylum |
4,000 |
| Class IV. |
| United Kingdom and England:— |
|
| Board of Education |
5,450,000 |
| British Museum |
60,000 |
| National Gallery |
5,000 |
| National Portrait Gallery |
2,000 |
| Wallace Collection |
2,000 |
| London Museum |
1,000 |
| Scientific Investigation, &c. |
55,000 |
| Universities and Colleges, Great Britain, and Intermediate Education, Wales |
110,000 |
| Scotland:— |
|
| Public Education |
1,000,000 |
| National Galleries |
2,000 |
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| Ireland:— |
|
| Public Education |
980,000 |
| Endowed Schools Commissioners |
400 |
| National Gallery |
1,000 |
| Science and Art |
25,000 |
| Universities and Colleges, Ireland |
55,000 |
| Class V. |
| Diplomatic and Consular Services |
310,000 |
| Colonial Services |
120,000 |
| Telegraph Subisidies and Pacific Cable |
16,000 |
| Cyprus (Grant-in-Aid) |
49,000 |
| Class VI. |
| Superannuation and Retired Allowances |
380,000 |
| Miscellances Expenses |
12,866 |
| Hospitals and Charities, Ireland |
16,000 |
| Temporary Commissions |
15,000 |
| Ireland Development Grant |
180,000 |
| Statutory Committee |
600 |
| Class VII. |
| Old Age Pensions |
5,000,000 |
| National Health Insurance Joint Committee |
60,000 |
| National Health Insurance Commission (England) |
1,500,000 |
| National Health Insurance Commission (Wales) |
110,000 |
| National Health Insurance Commission (Scotland) |
190,000 |
| National Health Insurance Commission (Ireland) |
120,000 |
| Labour Exchanges and Unemployment Insurance |
300,000 |
| National Insurance Audit Department |
50,000 |
| Treatment of Tuberculosis (Special Grants) |
150,000 |
| Highlands and Islands (Medical Service) Board |
2000 |
| Ministry of Munitions |
100 |
| Ministry of Munitions, Ordnance Factories |
10 |
| Revenue Departments. |
| Customs and Excise |
1,100,000 |
| Inland Revenue |
980,000 |
| Post Office |
12,000,000 |
| Total for Civil Services and Revenue Departments |
£36,634,000." |
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[NOTE.—The sum taken represents a provision for between four and five months' expenditure.]